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How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African Americans

  • Written by Tamika C.B. Zapolski, Associate Professor of Pyschology, IUPUI
How racism in US health system hinders care and costs lives of African AmericansMortality rates for COVID-19 are two to three times higher for African Americans than whites.Getty Images/EyeEm/Robin Gentry

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the U.S., the virus hit African Americans disproportionately hard. African Americans are still contracting the illness – and dying from it – at rates twice as high as would be...

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